Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Online Book Panel on New ECHR Books
On 8 June 2022 at 16h00 CET, an online panel will be organized on “Minimalism vs. Maximalism? Challenges and Future Directions in the Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights”, chaired by Professor Eva Brems. It centres on three recent ECHR-related monographs and…
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EIN & DRI Report on Non-Implementation of Judgments of European Courts
Democracy Reporting International and the European Implementation Network (EIN) have published a report on the problems with implementation of both the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The report is entitled ‘Justice Delayed and Justice Denied: Non-Implementation of European Courts…
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New Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child
In the collaborative series between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), a new updated version has been published in open access of the Handbook on European Law related to the Right of the Child. The…
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New Book on a Constitutionalist Approach to the ECHR
Lisa Sonnleitner of Karl-Franzens University Graz has published the new monograph A Constitutionalist Approach to the European Convention on Human Rights. The Legitimacy of Evolutive and Static Interpretation with Bloomsbury Publishers. This is the abstract of the book: ‘This book presents a new constitutional…
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New Issue ECHR Law Review
The newest issue of the ECHR Law Review has just been published (vol. 3. issue 1). A number of its articles are dedicated to the special theme of the ECHR and climate change. These are the substantive articles and introductory editorial (some…
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ECHR Continues to Apply for Russia Until 16 September 2022
The European Court has made public today its decision about the date until when the Russian Federation, after having been ousted from the Council of Europe last week, is bound by the ECHR: 16 September 2022. The decision, adopted by the plenary Court yesterday…
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The Court’s Case-Law Guides Virtually Complete
In the all upheaval of politics and war surrounding the ECHR system these weeks, other matters may be easily overlooked. For the accessibility and understanding of the enormous amount of Strasbourg jurisprudence, structural overviews are essential, even for specialists. For a long time, the Court’s own…
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Formal End of Russia’s Council of Europe Membership
The day has come: this morning, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has today formally decided that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the organisation. This happens after just over a quarter century of membership, since…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a selection of new ECHR-related readings of the past few months: * Jacob Mchangama, Natalie Alkiviadou, ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Whatever Happened to the Right to Offend, Shock or Disturb?’, Human Rights Law Review, 2021,…
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Interim Measure for Russia’s Last Free Media: Novaya Gazeta
In a very exceptional move, yesterday – the very day the Russian Federation announced it would take steps to cease participation in the Council of Europe (see our post here) – the European Court of Human Rights announced it had earlier in the week issued the following to the…